Community Engagement for Overcoming Child Abuse Challenges: Best Practices and Strategies

This report discusses the challenges of child abuse and neglect in the community and how community engagement can help overcome them. It describes the project of Maya's Organisation Philippines and analyzes the best practices of community engagement. The report also discusses the relationship between stakeholders and strategies to engage them via social media platforms and how social media platforms can support the project. Additionally, it explores avenues to promote community participation for socio-cultural integration and multiculturalism and the importance of a forward-looking approach by community engagement practitioners to educate community members on internal and external factors that influence community development.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Project overview to overcome the challenge..........................................................................1
Description of project.............................................................................................................2
Analysing the best practices...................................................................................................2
Community engagement principles..............................................................................2
Benefits of stakeholder participation............................................................................3
Relationship between stakeholders and strategies to engage them (Social media platforms)3
How social media platforms used to support project.............................................................4
Avenues to promote community participation to enable socio cultural integration and
multiculturalism......................................................................................................................5
Importance of forward looking approach by community engagement practitioner to educate
community members on internal and external factors that influence community development 5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
Summary.................................................................................................................................5
Recommendations..................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
There are various challenges the community is facing and are required to resolve it out on
an essential basis in order to make the society better place to live in. Some of the major
challenges community is facing are such that adolescent pregnancy and access to clean drinking
water along with the child abuse and neglect and crime which is followed by the domestic
violence and drug use and also the pollution. Moreover, mismanagement of resources and lack of
funding for schools and services along with the ethnic conflict and health disparities which is
followed by the HIV/ AIDS and hunger and also the inadequate emergency services and many
more (Bedson, Jalloh, Pedi and Skrip, 2020).
The following discussion is based on the organization "Maya's Organisation Philippines"
which is a charity and volunteer organization. Report is all about discussing the community
challenges and engagement of society. Description of the entire project and analysing the best
practices of community engagement. Discussion is also made on the relationship between
stakeholders and strategies to engage them via Social media platforms and how social media
platforms used to support project along with the avenues to promote community participation to
enable socio cultural integration and multiculturalism and importance of forward looking
approach by community engagement practitioner to educate community members on internal and
external factors that influence community development with proper conclusion and
recommendations.
MAIN BODY
Project overview to overcome the challenge
The major community challenge is identified here is the child abuse and neglect because
children are facing the problems such as violence among youth and child labour along with the
transition to adulthood from public care and homeless youth which is followed by the LGBTQ
children and race and culture and also the sexual abuse to children. Project is all about reviewing
the community challenges of child abuse and how it can be overcome along with the description
of organization who are involved in such activities and manages the projects to face the problems
of child abuse. Strategies which charity and volunteer organizations holds in such cases are
volunteering the time in all these activities and discipline the children thoughtfully along with the
examining the assorted behaviour and educating own self and others as well which is followed
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by the teaching children their rights and supporting prevention programs and also the gaining of
knowledge that exactly what is the child abuse. Moreover, knowing the alert signs in order to
seek help and by reporting the abuse in the surroundings along with the investing in kids for
bright future. All these are the project overview to overcome the child abuse challenges in
regards of maximum community engagement with the undertaking (Epstein, Sanders, Sheldon
and Hutchins, 2018).
Description of project
Organisation chosen for the project of child abuse is "Maya's Organisation Philippines".
It is one of the charitable and voluntary organization which aims to protect children against
sexual abuse. It is located in London Borough Of Newham. Organisation has several objectives
such as children's charity and saving their children along with the local and international goals
and stopping sexual abuse of children which is followed by the requirements of volunteers and
charitable donations. Moreover, project is all about to increase the awareness in order to prevent
the child sexual abuse so that the establishment of shelter for holistic healing of sexually abused
children can be accomplished. They have the project goal that they will not let the children to
suffer in silence, they are here to support the children. Another aim of the project is to provide
hope to survivors and victims in order to prevent future abuse. But the project is majorly based
on the community engagement regarding the project entitled so that maximum number of
participation can be conducted by the organisation (Dostilio and Welch, 2019).
Analysing the best practices
Community engagement principles
There are various principles which are adopted by the organization in order to encourage
the community engagement in the project of child sexual abuse so that more and more number of
people can participate and contribute in the project either with their wealth or some ideas in an
innovative and creative manner. Careful planning and Preparation is one of the community
engagement principle in the project of child sexual abuse which means that the people must
involved in the planning and preparation of the project. Inclusion and Demographic Diversity is
an another community engagement principle in the project of child sexual abuse which means
that the community must have an appropriate inclusion in the diversifying nature of the
demography. Collaboration and Shared Purpose is also one of the community engagement
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principle in the project of child sexual abuse which means that there must be the collaborative
feature among the people who are involved for the shared purpose. Openness and Learning is
also an another community engagement principle in the project of child sexual abuse which
means that the people must be open and have the ability to learn for better engagement.
Transparency and Trust is one of the community engagement principle in the project of child
sexual abuse which means that the stakeholders involved must be clear with every one to build
up the trust in the activities of the project. Impact and Action is an another community
engagement principle in the project of child sexual abuse which means that interaction in the
human action and implementation must have the positive impact on undertaking. Sustained
Engagement and Participatory Culture is also one of the community engagement principle in the
project of child sexual abuse which means that the owner of the project must develop the
environment which is sustainable in nature that is participatory culture (Yamamura and Koth,
2018).
Benefits of stakeholder participation
Stakeholders identified for a particular project of child sexual abuse are the employees
and members of organizations along with the investors and service users which is followed by
the local communities and local voluntary organizations and also the local authority. Moreover,
the beneficiaries and regulators along with the grant makers and lenders which is followed by the
customers and many more. Benefits of stakeholder participation in the project of child sexual
abuse are such that there will be better understanding of needs and concerns along with the time
investment in right places and improved communication which is followed by the better
management of expectations and improved reputation. Moreover, more learning and decision
making along with the trust and risk management which is followed by the accountability and
cost savings and also the promotion of transparency in order to be more strategic engagement of
stakeholder in the project of child sexual abuse (Fancourt, Bhui, Chatterjee and South, 2021).
Relationship between stakeholders and strategies to engage them (Social media platforms)
There are several strategies to engage the stakeholders in the project of child sexual abuse
such that using social media platforms is one of the strategy to engage and create relationship
with stakeholder in the project of child sexual abuse which means that using the technology to
communicate and interact with the stakeholders gives the impression to participate in a more
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effective and efficient manner. Getting stakeholders talking to one another is an another strategy
to engage and create relationship with stakeholder in the project of child sexual abuse which
means that online communication can help to interact among stakeholders themselves in order to
better know each others review and perceptions on the project. Leading with integrity is also one
of the strategy to engage and create relationship with stakeholder in the project of child sexual
abuse which means that social media platforms maintains the integrity among the teams.
Engaging them in estimates and decision making is also an another strategy to engage and create
relationship with stakeholder in the project of child sexual abuse which means that there are
several online systems which supports decision making and proper estimation in the feasibility
study of the project which helps in engagement of stakeholders (Schoch-Spana, Ravi, Meyer and
Mwaungulu Jr, 2018).
How social media platforms used to support project
Social media platforms used to support in the project of child sexual abuse in many ways
such as it helps in empowering the teams who are involved in the project management. It helps in
the updating the management in an efficient manner. There are several updates which helps the
organization in accomplishing the project on time with effectiveness such as project progress is
one of the update in the project of child sexual abuse which means that it provides the
information that how much the project is progressed and what is to be needed more for
completion of it. Meeting schedules is an another update in the project of child sexual abuse
which means that a project needs multiple meetings for every domain of a single project and it
becomes confusing so therefore alerting about the meeting schedule is helpful for the project
support. Team building activities is also one of the update in the project of child sexual abuse
which means that it also supports in the team development actions so that the team can perform
with integrity and without any conflicts. Decision making meetings is also an another update in
the project of child sexual abuse which means that social media platforms supports in decision
making process which helps in the succession of meetings. Innovation meetings is an another
update in the project of child sexual abuse which means that it provides the creative ideas for the
accomplishments of the project along with the implementation process as well (Levin, Bowie,
Ragsdale and Sharfstein, 2021).
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Avenues to promote community participation to enable socio cultural integration and
multiculturalism
There are several avenues to promote community participation in the project of child
sexual abuse to enable socio cultural integration and multiculturalism are such that redistribution
of socio economic resources which helps the community to accept the diversification in a willing
manner so that it does not shape to form the conflicts among community who are involved in the
project of child sexual abuse. Moreover, representation of political voice and recognition of
culture and social identities are the basic level of promotion which highly supports the
community participation in the project of sexual abuse of the children (Brown and Stokes, 2021).
Importance of forward looking approach by community engagement practitioner to educate
community members on internal and external factors that influence community
development
Importance of forward looking approach by community engagement in a particular
project of sexual abuse of children are such that it helps in updating the skills to manage the
project and moreover to up skill the same whenever required. Furthermore, this approach ensures
that the team are working at their optimum in order to deliver the change and grab the
opportunities in future either in the same project of child sexual abuse or another related to it
(Edwards, Soutar and Best, 2018).
CONCLUSION
Summary
It is concluded that community engagement is an important concept to learn and study so
that its applications can be applied in the real world projects. This is because until and unless the
community will not get engaged or participate then the succession of the project can be doubtful.
Therefore, it is important to identify the community challenge and analyse the project overview
to overcome the challenge. It is essential to describe the project and examine the best practices
which includes community engagement principles and benefits of stakeholder participation. It is
necessary to determine the relationship between stakeholders and strategies to engage them
through social media platforms and how social media platforms used to support project. It is
significant to gain the knowledge about avenues to promote community participation to enable
socio cultural integration and multiculturalism and importance of forward looking approach by
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community engagement practitioner. Hence, this report covers all such areas in order to better
understand the conception of community engagement.
Recommendations
It is recommended that for the further projects, there are strategies analysed to improve
the community engagement such as giving community members a place to express themselves
and focusing on community moderation along with the segmenting the user base for epic
community development and by bringing the social media following into the own closed
community which is followed by being responsive and making it fun in order to encourage the
members to invest some time and effort and also the welcoming of new members. Moreover, by
using the visual content and making thoughtful decisions with a community manager. Strategies
for project sustainability are suggested in such a way that by starting by assessing the current
project sustainability and developing the sustainability approaches along with the adopting the
sustainability standard and looking for sustainability in partners and vendors (Bowers, 2018).
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